EFF leader Julius Malema — PICTURE: GALLO IMAGES Revolutionary deliverers fill leadership vacuums. They tear down what no longer works, and embody the compromises a country is willing to tolerate as it rights a set of wrongs.But leading a revolution is not the same thing as leading a nation, and few people can lead a nation on the back of leading a revolution. You end up needing a revolutionary deliverer to deliver you from your previous revolutionary deliverer.Nelson Mandela, 22 years ago, became the sunny packaging of a trade-off that otherwise would have been unpalatable to many black South Africans. “The Mandelafication of the Struggle against apartheid is not by accident but by design,”insists Malaika wa Azania. And as I’ve said before, black liberation leaders got in bed with capital and today, the best black people can hope for under this status quo is a “fair” opportunity to start over in the New South Africa as though the Old never took anything from them.Seeing the lawful ...

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